AP Human Geography(sustainability)
Prime Meridian
0 degrees longitude through Greenwich England
What are the 3 pillars of Sustainability?
1. Environmental, 2.Social, 3.Economic
What are 3 characteristics to a Formal Region?
1. common language 2. economic activity(production of crop) 3. environmental property(Climate)
2 reasons that make situation valuable
1. finding an unfamiliar place 2. understanding the importance
What are 3 characteristics to a Vernacular Region?
1.might be of a cultural identity 2. Merges from peoples informal sense of places 3. personal impressions unatism the place is located
What are 3 characteristics to a Functional Region?
1.node around a focal point 2. transportation(communications) 3. displays economic areas
Biosphere
4th natural resource system;interacts with the 3 abiotic systems and encompasses all living organisms.
GIS
A geographic information system is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.
What are the 3 stable things Humans rely on?
Air,Water,Food,etc
Meridian
An Arc drawn between the North and South Poles
What is a Physical System
Atmosphere,Climate,Hydrosphere, and Lithosphere
Ethnicity
Encompasses a groups language,religion through people and other cultural values
Who were the first people to use the term Geography?
Eratosthenes(276-194 BC)
GPS
Global Positioning System, is a radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location, velocity, and time 24 hours a day, in all weather conditions, anywhere in the world.
What is the Environmental Pillar?
Having Conservation, Nonrenewable and renewable resources and Preservation
What is the Economic Pillar?
Having natural resources;supply and demand
What is the Social Pillar
Humans need shelter food and clothing to survive so make resources meet those needs
EQ: How are there 3 pillars of sustainability but some human actions can cause them not to be sustainable?
Humans take resources that aren't always needed or they take advantage of the resources that we have.But there is a lot of supply and demand and humans don't know how to balance the resources.
what are the 3 cultural traits used to determine the location and the value of a culture?
Language,Religion,Ethnicity
What is MR.HELP!!!?
Movement, Regions,Human Environment, Location, and Place
What are 3 ways to identify locations
Place name, Site, Situation
Renewable Resources
Produced in nature more rapidly then consumed by humans
What are examples of (Non)renewable resources?
R:Trees and wildlife, NR: petroleum and coal
What are 3 ways Map scales are represented?
Ratio/Fraction, Written Scale, A Graphic Scale
Conservation
Sustainable use and management of earth's natural resources to meet human needs,EX: (food and medicine and recreation)
Biotic
System composing of living organisms
Abiotic
System composing of nonliving or inorganic matter
Germophology
The study of Earth's land forms(and maps are used to show the features)
What are maps now used for?
Tools of Communication
one of the most popular site characteristics
Topogargphy
Depletion of Nutrients
When plants withdraw more nutrients than natural resources processes can replace
Erosion
When soil washes or blow away
Examples of Polders and Dikes
Zuider Zee project and Delta plan project
Diffusion
a characteristics spreads across space from one place to another over time
Map
a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
Location
a features place on earth by identifying it's location
Ecosystem
a group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres they interact
what is a mental map?
a map in our mind of places we have been or heard of.
Globalization
a process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
Place
a specific point on earth distinguished by a particular characteristic
Language
a system of signs, sounds, or gestures
Region
an area defined by one or more distinctive characteristics
Dikes
barriers to prevent land from flooding
What is the difference between climate and weather?
climate is long term and weather is what is happening during the next week.
Preservation
maintenance of resources in their present condition with the little human impact
Possibilism
physical environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to adjust and dominate their environment,replaced environmental determinism
Religion
physical system of beliefs, attitudes and practices
Polder
piece of land created by draining water from an area
Nonrenewable Resources
produced in nature more slowly than consumed by humans
Resources
substances useful to people
Culture
the body of customary beliefs, material traits and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people
Concentration
the extent of a features spread over space
pattern
the geometric arrangement of objects in space
Situation
the location of a place relative to other places
Toponym
the name given to a place on earth
Environmental Determinism
the physical environment causes social development
Contagious Diffusion
the rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
Scale
the relationships between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole
Expansion Diffusion
the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
Hierarchical Diffusion
the spread of an idea from persons f power to other persons
Stimulus Diffusion
the spread of an underlying principle even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse
Cultural Ecology
the study of human enviornment relationships
Sustainability
the use of the earths renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that ensure resource availability in the future
What did they do in the Netherlands for sustainable ecosystem?
they used a Polder and a Dike
What is remote sensing?
when they go over the map and look for errors or when they use satellites to go over a map.
Define Hearth
where something originates from
